NARDI SIMPSON

CONTINUITIES AND CUSTODIANSHIP PANEL SPEAKER

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Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay storyteller from NSW’s north west freshwater plains.  As a member of Indigenous duo Stiff Gins, Nardi has travelled nationally and internationally for the past 22 years.  She is also a founding member of ‘Freshwater,’ an all-female vocal ensemble formed to revive the language and singing traditions of New South Wales river communities.

Nardi’s debut novel ‘Song of the Crocodile’ was winner of the 2018 Black&Write Fellowship, longlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize and the Australian Book Industry Awards - Literary Fiction Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2021 Victorian Premiers Literary Awards- Indigenous Writing, MUD Literary Prize, New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards - New Writing and the Indie Book Awards- Debut Fiction award. 

Nardi is a graduate of Ngarra Burria First People’s Composers and the 2021 First Nations Composer in Residence with Ensemble Offspring. In her second year of a compositional PhD at ANU’s School of Music, Nardi is the current musical director of cross-cultural choir ‘Barayagal’ based at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where she also co-teaches Chamber Ensemble, a course exploring cultural narrative and improvisational performance. Nardi lives on Gadigal land with her partner and teenage son.


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